Barcelona Grafica (Spanish Edition) [Hardcover]

America Sanchez (Author)

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Publication Date: October 2002

Para producir esta obra, America Sanchez ha fotografiado y ordenado 1.825 piezas de grafica urbana barcelonesa: rotulos comerciales, numeros de portales, vinetas, alegorias, emblemas, pictogramas, que se hacen legibles e ilustran los usos de la ciudad. Ha sacado asi del anonimato la obra de un elenco multitudinario de grafistas espontaneos: rotulistas, pintores, grabadores, tallistas, herreros, vitralistas.. Con ello, America Sanchez ha inaugurado un nuevo campo de estudio sobre la cotidianidad, cuya tematica abre Norberto Chaves con sus reflexiones introductorias a la obra. Una mirada superficial no encontrara aqui mas que una coleccion de curiosidades del ingenio popular; la mirada atenta descubrira, en cambio, un tesoro grafico. Con este trabajo, America Sanchez hace una aportacion cultural tanto o mas importante que su valiosa obra como disenador grafico. A partir de esta obra, Barcelona puede mirarse en el espejo de su grafica anonima y, de este modo, recuperar otro aspecto de su riquisimo patrimonio.

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America Sanchez (Buenos Aires, 1939) is graphic designer, photographer and teacher of the image. Self - taught as an artist, his early training was marked by the so - called 'Swiss School', via Josef Muller - Brockmann's book The Graphic Artist and his Design Problems. In 1965 he arrived in Barcelona, where he worked as a free - lance designer. A year later he set up his own studio, specializing in corporate identity work for bussinesses and institutions, and graphic design for exhibitions and special events. From 1967 onwards he also works as a teacher in Barcelona's Escola Eina as well as other schools and institutions. The Bibliotheque Nationale de France, the Musee d'Aurillac, the IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez and the Museum of Fine Art in Houston have photos by him in their collections. And the Museum of Modern Art in New York also possesses examples of his graphic work. He has been awarded the Laus Prize on six occasions and the National Design Prize in 1992. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 496 pages
• Publisher: Editorial Gustavo Gili; 2nd edition (October 2002)
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN-10: 8425218500
• ISBN-13: 978-8425218507
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,923,680 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Barcelona Gráfica
America Sanchez

c. 1800 fotografías en color / c. 1.800 colour illustrations

496 pp
27 x 19 cm
Hardcover
catalan/english
/español/japanese
ISBN: 978-84-252-2026-5

To produce this work, America Sanchez photographed and arranged 1,834 pieces of Barcelona urban graphic art: shop signs, door numbers, cartoons, allegories, emblems and pictograms which illustrate the uses of the city and make them legible.

In doing so, Sanchez has brought out of anonymity a multitude of spontaneous graphic artists: sign-writers, painters, engravers, sculptors, metalworkers, stained-glass workers and more. Looking at this work, Barcelona can gaze into the mirror of its anonymous graphic art to recover another element of the city's rich heritage.

America Sanchez (Buenos Aires, 1939) is graphic designer, photographer and teacher of the image. Self-taught as an artist, his early training was marked by the so-called 'Swiss School', via Josef Müller-Brockmann's book The Graphic Artist and his Design Problems. In 1965 he arrived in Barcelona, where he worked as a free-lance designer. A year later he set up his own studio, specializing in corporate identity work for bussinesses and institutions, and graphic design for exhibitions and special events. From 1967 onwards he also works as a teacher in Barcelona's Escola Eina as well as other schools and institutions.

The Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the Musée d'Aurillac, the IVAM Centre Julio González and the Museum of Fine Art in Houston have photos by him in their collections. And the Museum of Modern Art in New York also possesses examples of his graphic work. He has been awarded the Laus Prize on six occasions and the National Design Prize in 1992.

Index of contents of:
Barcelona Gráfica - America Sanchez


Table of contents:

Introduction
Author's note

Photographs

Index of streets
Bibliography
Biography